The goals of the delegation are to express the international community’s interest in, and support for, democratic governance and competitive multiparty elections in Morocco, and to provide an impartial and accurate report on that process to Moroccans and the international community. The parliamentary elections will be the first since unprecedented popular demonstrations and a historic constitutional revision earlier this year.

The delegation will meet in Rabat with representatives of major political parties, officials of the Ministry of Interior, which is organizing the elections; the National Human Rights Council, which is charged with coordinating observer accreditation; government officials; civic leaders; citizen observers; media and representatives of the international community. Delegation members also will hold a series of meetings with local government representatives, activists and political leaders from around the country.